Gov. Haley: Democrats’s Attitude On Minorities Is Offensive

by: August 28, 2012

Saying that “it’s offensive to me as a woman and as a minority” that Democrats portray the GOP as “the party that hates you” when they reach out to non-whites, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made the case this morning that it’s the Republican Party that minorities should be looking to join.

Haley, an Indian-American and first-term governor, told USA Today and Gannett editors that for too long, many minorities “were Democrats because that’s where they thought they were supposed to be.” But she argued that on the issues that matter most to all Americans — jobs, the economy, debt reduction and national defense, for example — it’s the GOP that has ideas better suited for everyone.